Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realtors, and they talked of leases and rents, and how many stories an office building must rise in order to yield income proportionate to the value of a property in terms of Fifth Avenue frontage. In the end, they nodded in agreement on a real estate dicker which will wipe out the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a famed Manhattan landmark, a tradition of princesses and kings, Peacock Alley, memories of the Bradley-Martin ball...
...breeds in the bodies of lice. One louse infects others. The community bite their human or animal host and into the bloody puncture slip the typhus organisms. Dr. Nicolle developed a vaccine from the blood of infected monkeys. Injected into humans it immunizes them. Its spreading use promises to wipe out typhus as a plague...
...Vanderbilt IV, honest, put his signature to a document pledging more than $1,000,000 of his inheritance to repay stockholders of his dead tabloids. Said he: "I am giving up my heritage purely as a moral obligation. Legally, I no longer have any debts, but I wish to wipe the slate clean...
...leading up to the fact that Professor Murdock is giving a lecture on "The American Short Story since 1870" this morning at 10 o'clock in Harvard 1, at which the Vagabond expects to be present. For even if Poe is his favorite, he likes to wipe the cold sweat off his brow every now and then and enjoy the tales of O. Henry, Richard Harding Davis, and many others whom Professor Murdock will probably cover...
After that he poureth water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe (them) with the towel wherewith he was girded...